Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age during the Civil War

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)NDEX 209 Abigail (slave), 153 adolescence, 8–9, 101 African Americans: and the Old South social order, 4, 37; postwar labor of, 153–54; in postwar South, 118, 126, 147– 48, 152, 154–57; as soldiers, 67, 68–69 (fig. 6); violence toward, 147, 155–57, 159–61; young women’s approach to, in Civil War South, 66–67; —, in the New South, 148–57; in young women’s memoirs, 145, 148, 157–63. See also race relations; slavery; slaves Alden, Esther, 145 Alexander, Bettie, 21, 23, 44, 84, 105 Allston, Elizabeth Waties, 85, 118 American Revolution, 42–43, 138–39 Anderson, Rose, 112, 116 appearance, female, 31 Atlanta Female Institute, 43 Bailey, Alice, 116, 118 Ball, James, 125–26 Ball, Lucy Wills, 94, 125–26 Bassett, Thomas Jefferson, 116–17 Bleeding Kansas, 3 Boone, Sallie Walker, 75, 76, 82 Boozer, Simon, 116 Bradford, Edward, 14 Bradford, Susan, 9; on African American soldiers, 67; on Confederate cause, 41, 42; and courtships, 103–4, 120; education of, 20; on emancipation of slaves, 149; marriage of, 123, 124, 125; and family relationships, 21, 23; in the Old South, 14, 33–34; on postwar race relations , 150–51; and school culture, 19; on secession, 38, 40; on slavery, 32–33, 39; as teacher, 98; volunteer work of, 51; on war, 43, 44 Breckinridge, Lucy, 87, 107, 115–16, 116– 17 Brookland School, 24 brothers: authoritative role of, 24, 92; military service of, 43–46; relationship with sisters, 23–24; separation from family, 74–75, 89 Brown, John, 38–39 Brumby, Mollie, 117–18 Brumby, Robert, 118 Brumby, Sarah, 118 Burton, J., 18, 22, 27–28 Cabell, Mary Washington: memoirs, 137, 141; on the New South, 166; war and generational identity, 163; on weddings, 117, 124–25 Calhoun, John C., 38 Cameron Hall (1867), 133 Campbell, Jacqueline Glass, 86 Caramouche, Annie Jeter. See Jeter, Annie Caramouche, Emile, 116 Censer, Jane Turner, 126 Chaffin, Sarah, 123, 124, 127, 155 Chamberlain, Daniel, 156 Chamberlayne, John Hampden, 121–23 Chamberlayne, Mary. See Gibson, Mary Walker Charleston Mercury, 50, 53, 55 Clarkesville, Virginia, Young Ladies’ Aid Society, 49 class identity, 3–4, 10–11, 166; in Old South, 28–29, 33; in postwar South, 152; and secession, 37–38 Index 210 Clayton, Sarah “Sallie”: on the Confederate cause, 43; separation from family, 80; on slavery, 40; volunteer work of, 49, 51; and wartime fashion, 52 Claytor, Mary Bell, 142 Cleveland Masonic Female Institute, 19 Collier, Elizabeth, 47, 56–57, 70, 102, 106 Compromise of 1850, 3 Compromise of 1877, 157 Confederate nationalism, 2–6, 167; arguments for, 3–4; notions of duty, 44–47, 55; young women’s education in, 41–43. See also slavery; youth culture, female Confederate soldiers: camp life, 110–11; conditions of returning, 118, 119–20; romantic relationships with, 102–16; women as, 47; in young women’s memoirs, 141–45. See also courtship; memoirs, young women’s: romance narrative Confederate surrender, 7, 70–71, 130 Confederate Treasury, 95–96 Confederate womanhood, 5–6 Cook, Samuel Austin, 120 Cooper, Adie, 76, 94 Cooper, Ellen: courtships of, 120; on household manufacturing, 93–94; marriage of, 123; memoirs of, 136, 141; on protecting home, 90–91; and school attendance, 76; and separation from family, 81; as teacher 95, 98 Corbin, Nancy, 47 correspondence, 11, 13, 41, 154. See also courtship: correspondence courtship: and age, 105–6, 172 (table 6); correspondence, 107–11, 115; freedom in, 5, 29–30, 33, 115–16, 123–24, 128; opportunities for, in Civil War South, 102–5; parental control of, 26–29, 121–22; as patriotic expressions, 6; in postwar South, 101–2, 119–24, 128; and social activities, 30–31; as source of comfort, 108–9; as source of continuity , 6, 102, 120; standards of, in Civil War South, 102–3, 105–6; —, in Old South, 26, 27–29, 33, 101; and Union soldiers, 64–65; wartime changes to, 13, 101, 103–5, 107–8, 128; wartime conduct in, 101, 111–13, 115–16. See also Confederate soldiers; memoirs, young women’s; parents Crump, Emmeline Allmand, 90 Cruse, Mary Ann, 133 Daily Richmond Enquirer, 42, 48 Davis, Jefferson, 55, 134, 151 Davis, Lizzie, 61 Davis, Martha (“Nannie”), 20 Davis, Olin, 20, 24, 25, 154 DeCaradeuc, Pauline: on African American soldiers, 150; on Confederate economy , 93; on Confederate surrender, 71; and courtships, 102–3, 105; female friendships of, 107; on loyalty of slaves, 85; wartime patriotism of, 56 Democratic Party, 156–57, 159 Demos, John, 8 Demos, Virginia, 8 diaries...